Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Tunisia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Theoretical Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Jimmy McGriff,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fall,
Motorama,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
EPMD,
Oneida,
Ponytail,
Interpol,
Scan 7,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang Green,
Audionom,
David Bowie,
Bill Wells,
Model 500,
The Smoke,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül,
Eve St. Jones,
New York Dolls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Skatalites,
Jeff Lynne,
Qualms,
Popol Vuh,
Q65,
The New Christs,
The Zeros,
Sam Rivers,
The Music Machine,
Byron Stingily,
Dorothy Ashby,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Invisible,
Grauzone,
Dawn Penn,
Lou Reed,
Talk Talk,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Grass Roots,
Make Up,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Heaven 17,
KRS-One,
Aaron Thompson,
Skriet,
Icehouse,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cybotron,
Jacob Miller,
Technova,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.